Mixogaster
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There are 21 myrmecophilous species in this genus. Mixogaster is distinct by lacking an appendix on vein R4+5, having a reduced and bare metasternum, an unarmed scutellum, and usually an appendix on vein M extending in cell R4+5. Larvae are found in ant nests.
Genus and species | Author and Year | Ant Host | Distribution | |
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Mixogaster anthermus | (Walker, 1849) | ants | Neotropical: Paraguay | |
Mixogaster breviventris | Kahl, 1897 | ants | Nearctic | |
Mixogaster cicatrix | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster conopsoides | Macquart, 1842 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster cubensis | Curran, 1932 | ants | Cuba | |
Mixogaster currani | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster delongi | Johnston, 1924 | ants | Nearctic | |
Mixogaster dimidiata | Giglio-Tos, 1892 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster flukei | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster imitator | Thompson, 2004 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster johnsoni | Hull, 1941 | ants | Nearctic | |
Mixogaster lanei | Carrera & Lenko, 1958 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster lopesi | Carrera & Lenko, 1958 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster mexicana | Macquart, 1846 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster orpheus | Hull, 1944 | ants | Neotropical: British Guiana | |
Mixogaster pithecofascia | Hull, 1944 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster polistes | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster rarior | Shannon, 1925 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster sartocrypta | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster strictor | Hull, 1941 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster thecla | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical |